A coalition of Islamic jihadist groups are working together to aid
the Sudanese government in its military campaign against South Sudan,
WND has learned.

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In Gaza, Hamas and the al-Qaida-allied Popular Resistance Committees
held a rare meeting last week to discuss methods of support for the
Sudanese Republic, according to informed Arab officials.

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The officials said Jihadiya Salafiya, a Gazan jihad group that works
under the ideological banner of al-Qaida, already started recruiting
fighters to aid the Sudanese Army.

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Jihadiya Salafiya is the military wing of the same Salafist group
that just endorsed Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former leading member
of the Muslim Brotherhood, in his run for Egyptian president.

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Sudan reportedly has been a key arms-smuggling route for weapons to
enter Gaza.

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The move comes as the Islamist president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir,
declared a state of emergency Sunday for cities along the hotly
contested border with South Sudan.

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Just yesterday, South Sudan accused Sudan of launching another in a
series of attacks focusing on a key oil region that falls within the
jurisdiction of the new state of South Sudan, which was formed last
July.

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South Sudan said it was preparing to strike back, in another sign of
the festering violence along the frontier that many fear could
escalate into an all-out war.

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There are religious overtones to the dispute.

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Sudan has been the subject of severe sanctions due to its alleged
ties with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al-Qaida terrorist groups.

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When Sudan’s Bashir first seized power in a military coup, he
suspended political parties and introduced an Islamic legal code on
the national level.

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Currently, Sudan officially is supposed to be a federal,
presidential, representative, democratic republic, but Bashir has
been widely accused of running an authoritarian regime.

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The landlocked South Sudan became an independent state July 9, 2011.

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The South Sudanese primarily practice animism and Christianity.

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Last month, following border clashes April 9 between Sudan and South
Sudan, a Muslim mob reportedly destroyed a church compound in Sudan,
with the congregation’s pastor expressing concern about the plight of
Christians.

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Pastor Yousif Matar Kodi said hundreds of people descended on his
Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church compound in Khartoum after an
Islamic cleric called for the action during Friday night prayers.

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“They burned Bibles and torched the school for training clergy on the
farm, as well as the residence of the students,” he said.

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Kodi told reporters three worship halls that served as public
churches were also destroyed.